Other than the fact that firefox dumps core when you print, it seems to
print. You may very well be running into
6743432 firefox is corrupting it's malloc buffers.
which appears to be the cause of
6750542 memory corruption in firefox breaks printing
It looks like LD_PRELOAD of libc.so before running firefox works around
this.
-Norm
Stuart Mackie wrote:
> Someone wrote:
>
>
>> This concerns defects with Firefox3.0.1 running on Solaris 10.
>>
>
> I installed OpenSolaris 2008.05, and bumped it to b98... but...
>
> ... I also could not print from Firefox. Argh! Show-stopper!
>
> I've just installed Solaris 10 u5 (due to the problems printing from
> Firefox3) and have encountered similar problems with the "contrib"
> build of Firefox 3.0.1 (on sol10 u5)... ie: can't print any web-pages.
>
> Workaround: printing from native Firefox 2.x on Solaris 10 u5
> works OK (tm) with the Blastwave/CSW cups package...
>
> I suggest:
>
> if not being able to print from Firefox3 (on Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris
> b98) is a show-stopper for you (like me) - regress to Firefox v2.x on
> Solaris 10 u5.
>
> Export bookmarks from FF3 in HTML, then import to FF2. BTW...!
>
> HTH,
>
> Stuart.
>
>
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